It's only the beginning

Trying to come to grips with Truth is a continuous process. Once you are drawn into its direction, you have no choice but to become more focussed. You have to start somewhere. Actually you always start now. 'Now' is a concept that never fades.

Did you see a variation of this in a pub? 'Tomorrow the beer is half price.'
Come tomorrow, you ask for the reduction and the bartender says: 'Can't you read? Tomorrow. Only tomorrow is the beer half price.' What a joke, or is it? Yes, tomorrow never comes. Even at the moment that 23:59 hours changes into 0:00 hours, it is still not tomorrow. It is always today! In fact, day, the measure of time, is arbitrary. It is always this year, this month, this week, this day, this hour, this minute, this second, this moment, this - this is always now.

So, yesterday, when it was now, I went to see a professor at the university where I studied. It was an experiment. I tried to go there and see whether I could make him enthousiastic about the hidden meaning of the Hebrew Letters. As a mathematician he ought to be interested if I tell him that these letters are like variables in math. Except that they also have some basic properties, to be specified later. So, after he had given his opinion about the bible - which is not relevant at all - I could ask him, what he thought was the most important book in the bible. He did not know. It is Genesis. And I asked what is the most important chapter of it. He did not know. It is the first. And I asked what the most important word was. He did not know. The first word. I said: 'The first word is pronounced berayshiyt.' (There may be some variations around, but it is pretty close - it is an old word, mind you.)
I wrote it on the blackboard. It reads

בראשית

He asked what it means. I said: 'Nobody knows what it means, it can not be translated. But I can still give meaning to it.' And I wrote the following sequence of numbers:

400.10.300.1.200.2

Yes, you are required to read the word and the sequence from right to left, as is customary in Hebrew. The professor started talking again and in between he asked the question why I thought it was the most important word. The situation was rather peculiar in that he had talked most of the time. And I had the opportunity to give the meaning. I said: 'I am trying to tell you a very important information, that is hard to explain, because it is rather abstract. But you, as a mathematician, may be able to understand it, if I am allowed to explain it. The words in this Hebrew text are equations, expressed in the letters. And their meaning is the solution, depending on the context. But it is not an ordinary language. It is unknown, but we can find its meaning by understanding the letters.'

Now the miracle happened. The professor told me a story related to the formation of creole languages.

He said that people sometimes migrate to another country into another language area. When they are older, they are not able to pick up the language any more, but only that part of it that is necessary to survive, or to express the basic things to get by in stores and such. This effect is even stronger when these people come from different language areas themselves. Their language is even cruder and poorer. The children of these people, however, because they become socially active in their community, have the need to express their emotions, especially when they become interested in having a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Then, all by themselves, they tend to creatively form a complete new rich language that becomes their native tongue. A new language is born.

This is what he told me. I was very surprised to note that what he told me is a possible translation of the word berayshiyt!

I coupled the letters as follows:

(B) 2 - children (in Hebrew the word bar 2.200 means son or child)
(R) 200 - feeling poor in their community; expressed as an enlargement of 2.
(A) 1 - have a need to express themselves
(Sh) 300 - become creative
(I) 10 - invent a language
(T) 400 - that answers their needs as a NEW language.

When he was finished I had written these interpretations next to the letters and said: "Your story is perfectly mapped on this word. It surprises me that I could do that, but it is an honest translation. The word expresses the process you have just described. Such is the generality of the meaning of these letters. According to the 'flat' translation, it means 'in the beginning'. But its meaning can't be expressed in a single expression like that. It explains a process."
He was sceptic and said: "It looks more like poetry."
Considering that he may not only express scepticism, but also tried to get back to his work, I tried once more to leave the impression that there is more at stake then only the question of whether this is poetry or not. He started to tell me another story and I understood that he was not ready to take it in. I left him to his work.

Now, when I went home, I realised another thing, I had gone through the same process myself:

2 - lonely me
200 - entering a building of the mathematical community
1 - wanting to explain the first word
300 - used the professor's story as a creative way to do it
10 - giving the explanation in a mapping
400 - leaving it at that, whether it was understood or not.

So, in a way, my wish had been granted - I had explained it to somebody that is much smarter than I am. But his way of thinking blocked understanding. I was slightly disappointed, but I understood that it means I can not force the outcome. Next time, somebody will ask me to explain it even better. This prospect filled me with satisfaction.

This word berayshiyt is much more then this even. It is the explanation of the fact that everything that happens is always the answer to all the questions you ask or have asked. A basic understanding of this fact is itself the beginning of becoming sensitive to the value of this answer, when it appears to you now.

It's only the beginning - and it means there is nothing else.